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Victorian Literature and Culture, 2004
IN JUNE1885 a group of radical intellectual Londoners gathered for the evening at that hub of nin... more IN JUNE1885 a group of radical intellectual Londoners gathered for the evening at that hub of nineteenth-century free thought, the South Place Institute. The event was organized by the Socialist League, a revolutionary socialist organization which counted William Morris, Eleanor Marx, and Edward Aveling as its most prominent members at that point in time. But this was no ordinary meeting. There were no lectures and no debates, just popular songs and dramatic recitations that had been carefully rehearsed by the membership in order to entertain for the cause. William Morris drafted a poem for the occasion, urging these “Socialists at Play” to cast their “care aside while song and verse/Touches our hearts.” Play, however, was not to lull the audience into a “luxurious mood”:
Victorian Literature and Culture, 2006
I got your poems, my dear Dollie. They made me sad. They make me think of the small birds in the ... more I got your poems, my dear Dollie. They made me sad. They make me think of the small birds in the twilight, whistling brief little tunes, but so clear, they seem almost like little lights in the twilight, such clear vivid sounds. I do think you make fine, exquisite verse…I hear your voice so plainly in these, so like a bird too, they are, the same detachment.—D. H. Lawrence to Dollie Radford, January 1916
Starting from the observation that so many of the major Victorian novels are set, not in the rail... more Starting from the observation that so many of the major Victorian novels are set, not in the railway age in which they were written, but in the horse-drawn world of the previous generation, a world that is \u27just past\u27, this fine study explores the ways in which novelists from Waiter Scott to Thomas Hardy use the stage coach to connect particular localities, often closely observed and substantially realized, to the larger framework of the nation. This turning back to the past is not, Ruth Livesey insists, a retreat from the complications and dislocations of a modern present into a simpler age, nostalgically recalled; and in resisting the notion of a nostalgic retrospect her argument challenges two important critical works on novels of the mid-century, Kathleen Tillotson\u27s Novels of the Eighteen-Forties and George Lukacs\u27s The Historical Novel. What Tillotson saw as the recreation of an idealized past by writers uncomfortably inhabiting two worlds and Lukacs read as an aba...
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Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015
Journal of Victorian Culture, 2004
Womens History Review, 2004
... Such a detailed account of the professionalisation of the women inspectors is significant for... more ... Such a detailed account of the professionalisation of the women inspectors is significant for the history of feminism because both Philippa Levine and Rosemary Feurer have identified the labour debates of the 1890s as a key turning point for the women's movement. ...
Victorian Literature and Culture, 2004
... that “the earth reborn to beauty and joy” seemed just around the corner, thanks to the ever-g... more ... that “the earth reborn to beauty and joy” seemed just around the corner, thanks to the ever-growing socialist movement (Yeo, 1977 12). ... During the 1880s and 1890s the self-styled scientific and gradualist socialists of the Fabian Society were notable for their explicit attempts to ...
Victorian Literature and Culture, 2006
Literature Compass, 2004
... Morris, W., Pilgrims of Hope and Chants for Socialists (London: Longmans, 1915). Nesbit, E., ... more ... Morris, W., Pilgrims of Hope and Chants for Socialists (London: Longmans, 1915). Nesbit, E., Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism, 1883–1908 (London: Fabian Society, 1908). ... 127 – 46.Yeo, S., 'A New Life: The Religion of Socialism in Britain, 1883–1896'. ...
Journal Issue by Ruth Livesey
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2009
... Ella Dzelzainis and Ruth Livesey [1]. ... Fittingly enough, Vicky Greenaway's reading of ... more ... Ella Dzelzainis and Ruth Livesey [1]. ... Fittingly enough, Vicky Greenaway's reading of James Tissot's Goodbye, on the Mersey (1881) is another of the pieces here designed to elicit further commentary and discussion via the facilities of this online journal. ...
Book Reviews by Ruth Livesey
Journal of Victorian Culture, 2013
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